Originally posted by Time-Immemorial
Hilary is just doing aweful. Without the massive party and media support she would be done. How much longer can the party hold out till they drop support for her.
Note the serious Republican candidates have similar ratings- when someone runs and becomes a top contender, their favorability drops, because everyone on the other side who's willing to give some credit, "Eh, they aren't my team, but they're all right," of course goes to, "Nah, don't like 'em."
Hillary and Jeb Bush have almost the same favorability ratings, for similar reasons (and both beat the heck out of Trump, who's at -24!).
As for Sanders... info-dump time.
Sanders is like Ron Paul. He has his supporters, and they are very strong supporters, but he lacks some appeal beyond that.
Five Thirty Eight did an analysis of the situation, and concluded the Bernie Surge was more about him than Hillary.
And, the stuff that'll turn the mainstream off him? He's for putting the Federal Reserve under congresses' control (now, is there anyone here, Republican or Democrat or foreigner or whatever, who think that *congress* would do a better job with the economy than the fed?). He's against international trade treaties- something that the President has a fair amount of control over.
Sure, he has support on stuff like minimum wage, but even among Democrats, I hear people supporting him not so much for *him*, but to push Hillary to take similar stances on some specific issues. He's popular now, but if he looked like he was really going to get into the running, those other policies would be attacked hard, and considering Democrats disagree with him on both the Fed and foreign trade, that makes his primary success unlikely.
Idealogues, of either party, rarely get the nomination.
We know that they will support her lies, dishonesty and bad candor.
Though it does help that a whole lot of the stuff she's accused of, is, in fact, false, and people know it. Benghazi? Free and clear even by Republican investigations, and those who trumpet it hurt their own credibility.
She does have mud on her, but it's fairly minor stuff. Trying to blow her up into a Nixonian figure doesn't work, and backfires even.
At the end of the day, she had a successful Senate run, Secretary of State run, the association with Bill's successes, and is left-center on most issues, which is a pretty good place to be for the final race. A lot of draw with moderates/independents plus support of the Democratic party- which she has for reason of her track record, it's not like it was just handed to her- will make her a very tough foe than any Republican challenger should take seriously.